No official approach exists to resize your images in Google Drive. Let’s dive deep to know some workarounds on how to resize an image in Google Drive.
You can use some add-ons and Google Docs for this purpose.
Approach-1: Using Photo Editor With Drive Add-on
Photo Editor is a Chrome add-on that provides many effects for different images, including rotate, open & save to Drive, Flip vertically and horizontally, crop image, sepia, brightness, pink, brown, blur, negative, and many more.
1. Go to the Chrome web store and search “Photo editor with Drive.”
2. Click “Add to Chrome” and then “Add app.”
3. From your Google Drive screen, click on the “Photo editor with Drive” icon at the top right of the screen.
4. You can select an image file (supports multiple files to open) or a photo for editing from your Google Drive or PC.
5. You can then start resizing your images.
6. Click “Save to Drive” to save the resized image.
Approach-2: Using Google Docs
Google Docs is a powerful online collaborator that allows you to resize your images in Google Drive. Whatever images you have in your Google Drive, paste or insert them in any Google Docs file available in your Google Drive.
1. To resize an image in Google Docs. Open your Google Docs document. Click Insert > Image > Drive
2. Once your image is inserted, you can see “Image Options” in the top toolbar.
Click on the “Image Options”
3. A new pop-up screen will be opened on the right side of the Google Docs screen.
4. Click on the dropdown icon before “Size and rotation.”
You can see four options under the “Size and Rotation” menu — Width, Height, Width scale, and Height Scale.
- You can change the size of the image by customizing the size options.
- Once done, you can see the size has changed in your Google Drive.
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